You list “Twitter User darrylayo” as the source and you posted it as “News”.
Hardly “nothing to do with Twitter”.
Real sign or not, Twitter ain’t “News”.
Well, it was his photo. He took the snapshot from his iPhone. He just happens to be on Twitter. If he published it on Flickr, I’d source it as Flickr being the source. If He published on CNN.com I’d list CNN as the source.
But seriously - Thanks for hijacking the thread with your elitist forum troll banter.
Although surely you understand the significant point underlying this little discussion about the definition of news—that a rigid definition is inevitably arbitrary, insufficient, or both.
Why are boots on the ground tweets and FB posts “news” when it comes from other countries, but not our own?
We are quickly moving into a time when what we see in the evening news and daily rags is false.
So where and how does one ‘get real news?’
What will be the new printing press to keep freedom alive? What is the modern pamphleteer?